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History of 
the Daily 
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History of the Daily Family 

IN AMERICA 



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GElIE/JiOGY 

GEANOLOGY TRACED THROUGH THE 

GATES FAMILY 



Written and Publi'shed by 

WILLIAM ALLEN DAILY 

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 

MAY 1st, 1909 



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THE GATES FAMILY 



Horatio Gates (1728-1806) and David Gates (1728-1808) were half 
brothers, of Scotch-Irish doscont, tlieir ancestors fleoinp; from the 
north of Ireland asliort time before the Battle of the Boyne between 
the forces of King William the third and tlie army of the deposed 
King James. Their parents were servants to a noble English fami- 
ly, whose seat was on the Blackwater river near Maiden, Essex 
county, England. 

Horatio Gates early in life secured a commission in the English 
army without purchase, and first came to America under Lord Corn- 
wallis and landed at Halifax, N. S. For gallant bravery at San Do- 
minica, West Indies, he was promoted to Major. As sucli lie took a 
part in Braddock's Expedition against Fort Duquesne. Was se- 
verely wounded at Monongahela and his life was saved by Colonel 
George Washington. At close of the French and Indian War in 
1763 lie returned to England and married a Miss Valance, of Liver- 
pool, the daughter of a wealthy merchant of that city, by whom he 
inherited about one half million dollars. He returned to America 
late in the same year accompanied by his older brother David. For 
.a time he remained in New Yox*k City, later pui'chasing a large es- 
tate with slaves in Berkeley county, Virginia. 

David Gates upon his arrival in this country located at Say- 
brook, Conn. On November 28, 1773 he was married to Anna Hale at 
Cornbury, Middlesex county. Conn. He served in the Revolution- 
ary Army as shown in the following records: 

"Record and Pension Office, War Dept., Washington, D. .C, De- 
cember 1st, 1898. 
Mr. S. M. Saylor, Attorney, Huntington, Indiana. 

It is shown by the records that one David Gates, rank not stated, 
served as a member of Capt. Willey's Company, Wylleys (2ntl) Reg- 
iment Connecticut troops, Revolutionary War. His uanie appears 
on a '-List" dated December 10th, 1776, of arms and accoutrements 
which were detained in the service and turned into the store, which 
shows relative to this soldier as follows: 

Fire arms 1, C. boxes 1, bayonets 1, price £-3-0-0. Nothing addi- 
tional relative to the service of this soldier has been found of record 



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and no record has been found of the service of any other David Gates 
during the Revolutionary War. 

It is proper to add, however, that collection of Revolutionary 
War Records in this office is far from complete and the absence 
therefrom of any name is bj' no means conclusive evidence that the 
person who bore the name, did not serve in the Revolutionary army. 
It is suggested as a possibility that further information on the sub- 
ject of your inquiry can be obtained from the Adjutant General of 
the State in, or from which the soldier entered the service." 

By authority of the Secretary of War. 

(Signed) F. C. Ainsworth, Col. U. S. Army, Chief of Office. 
Adjutant General's Office, Hartford, Conn., 1889, Page 46. 

"Second Regiment Gen. Spencier, 1775. 

Regiment raised first call for troops by the Legislature April, 
May, 1775. Recruited mainly in present Middlesex county and east- 
ern part of colony, marching by companies to the camps around 
Boston. It took post at Roxbury and served during the siege until 
expiration of term of service December 1775. Detachment of officers 
and men engaged at the Battle of Bunker Hill June 17th and in Ar- 
nolds Quebec Expedition September, December, 1775. Adopted as 
Continental in July. The Regiment was reorganized for service in 
July 1776 under Col. Wyllys. Record of Continental Men in the War 
of Revolution, War of 1812, and War with Mexico." 

David Gates is also said to have served under Col. Cook from 
June 27, 1777 to Nov, 9, 1777 and was discharged on account of wound 
received at Bemis Heights, N. Y. The writer has been unable to 
verify this last reported service by any official record and can neith- 
er affirm nor deny its correctness. 

David Gates, by his wife Anna Hale Gates, had eight children, 
David, Samuel, Tin^othy, Abel, Stephen, Lee, Sarah and Anna. The 
writer has found records of the ages of but two of the above children, 
Stephen born May 7, 1783 and Sarah born Sept. 11, 1787, at what was 
then Lancaster, New Jersey. 

David Gates moved from Cornbury, Middlesex county. Conn, to 
Lancaster, N. J. in 1784. In 1801 he moved to what is now Athens 
county, Ohio and settled on four sections of land. The trip was 
made by ox teams via Braddock's old road to Redstone Fort, where 
having bought a large flat boat he went down the Monongahela and 
Ohio rivers and up Hock Hocking river to within 1% miles of the 
place where he located. He was at that time 78 years old, but 
strong and hale. David Gates died Aug. 19, 1808 in his 85th year, 
while Anna Hale Gates died Jan. 4th, 1823. The two are buried side 
by side in the family grave yard in Athens county, Ohio. 



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THE DAILY FAMILY 



Charles Daily (17()!)-IS49) was l)<)in in (bounty of Moiiaghan, Ire- 
land in the year ITtU) and (Miii<:^rated to America in 1789. He was 
married to Sarah Gates (1787-1864) daughter of David Gates and 
Anna Hale CJates on June fith, ISOfJ, at Athens, Ohio. 

Nine children were born to them as follows: Francis A. born 
July 24, 1807, died at Centralia, 111. Sept. 16, 1866. John Hale, born 
Sept. 19, 1809, died at Colony, Kansas. William j\I. ))orn Jan. 29, 
1812, died at New Orleans, La. Feb. 15, 1877, buried by side of his 
wife at Madison, Ind. Samuel Gates, born June 7, 1814, died March 
21, 1866, burietl by side of his wife. Julian Morgan Daily, in Daily 
graveyard 5 miles east of Savannah, Mo. Charles M. born June 12, 
1817, died at Opdyke, 111. Anna Catherine, born Oct. 7, 1819, lives 
at St. Louis, Mo. James M. born April 20, 1822, died at Olney, 111. 
May 23, 1900. Allen W. born Jan. 2, 1825, died at Chicago, 111. Sept. 
14, 1903, and is buried at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery of that city. 
David Oliver, born May 8, 1829, died at Huntington, Ind. July 8. 1867. 

Sarah (Jatcs Daily was a devoted Christian woman, and like her 
mother Anna Hale Gates, a staunch adherent to her church, Meth- 
odist. She persistently refused the hand of Charles Daily until he 
had renounced his Catholicism, and she had fully tested his conver- 
sion by putting him on two year's probation prior to her marriage. 
The picture of Sarah Gates Daily, now in the possession of the wri- 
ter, shows in every lineament of her face, her talent and strength of 
character. Her whole life was animated by high aspirations and un- 
selfish devotion to her family and church. The writer well remem- 
bers the strong influence exerted by her over him as well as all oth- 
er people with whom she came in contact during her long and use- 
ful life. 

Charles Daily was a typical Irishman with a full Irish brogue 
that announced at once his nationality to the most casual observer. 
He was a carpenter by trade, small in stature and did not weigh 
more than 130 pounds. He wore a beard at least 6 inches in length. 
His knee cap having been fractured early in life by a fall from a 
building. He used a cane and walked with great difficulty. 

Hi' was deeply religious and ol)S(>rved strictly the tenets of his 
ciiurch. He held family prayer regularly. It was his custom to re- 
tire often for secret prayer, and it is said of him that he would be- 
come so enthusiastic in his supplications that he would pound the 
table and pray so loud as to be heard all over the premises. 

Two of his sons reeeiveil a college education. William M. was 
a very talented preacher. He was Congressional Chaplain during 



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J. K. Polk's administration and Post Cliaplain at Henton Barrack's, 
Missouri, during the Civil War. He was many years Presiding El- 
der in the Methodist church, and was at one time President of the 
Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. 

David Oliver began life as a teacher, but afterwards took up law 
and became a very brilliant attorney and one of the early leaders of 
the Republican party in the State of Indiana. He was in 1860 an 
elector for Abraham Lincoln. His early death cut short what prom- 
ised to be an unusually distinguished career, having died before he 
was thirty-nine. 

Sarah Gates Daily died at Centralia. 111. October 19, 1864. Chas. 
Daily died at Greensburg, Ind. January 16, 1849 and is buried in the 
Methodist Graveyard at that town. The following inscription was 
copied from his headstone by the writer in February, 1909: "In 
memory of Charles Daily, born in Ireland, emigrated to America in 
the 20th year of his age. Joined the Methodist Church in 1804. Died 
in triumphe January 16th, 1849, aged 80 years. He sleeps in Jesus. 
The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance." 

The writer in searching for data, finds in several early histories 
of Athens county, Ohio, that in 1801 a large family of Gates from 
New Jersey including two married sons, came down the Ohio river 
and up the Hockhocking and settled in Athens county in a neigh- 
borhood almost exclusively Methodist. This no doubt was our 
great grandfather's family. He also finds as early as 1798 in the 
dense jungle between the two Hockhocking rivers, Daily's Camp as 
a stopping place of the early settlers on arrival in this new country. 

Two narrators describe Daily's Camp as a large cabin 18x24 with 
loop holes and a small stockade. Gen. Ewing who stopped at this 
camp over night in 1798 relates that it was occupied by people half 
savage, but who readily furnished him a guide to pilot him to their 
destination through the dense jungle of cane and underbrush. It 
seems very probable that this camp was the home of Charles Daily 
prior to his marriage to Sarah Gates. While Daily's Camp is 
mentioned frequently by several narrators, no first name is given. 
The records of that time, which are now kept at Marietta, are en- 
tirely silent. 

After their marriage, Charles Daily and Sarah Gates Daily re- 
moved to Franklin county, Indiana, not far from Rrookville. In 
1834 they removed to Decatur county, Indiana, about l}^ miles from 
Greensburg, where Charles Daily purchased 160 acres of land from 
John Chambers and Bales Cope. They resided there until the death 
of Charles Daily in 1849. 

Samuel Gates Daily (1814-1866) son of Charles and Sarah Gates 



Daily was married to .Julian MDrLraii Auirust 25, IS.'JIi, l)y tlio Fl<v. N . 
Coxs, at the residence of Patrick Kwing, about 200 yards from where 
the Big Four R, R. Depot now stands at Ewington, Decatur county, 
Indiana. By this union nine cliildreii were born: 

Charles Maclin, born Sept. 1st, 1837. Martha Morgan, burn Jan. 
17th, 1S39, died Oct. 29th, 1900, at Council Grove, Kansas, buried at 
Council Grove, Kansas. Sarah P'rancis, born Oct. 23rd, 1841. Me- 
lissa Jane, born Oct. 24th, 18l2. William Allen, born Marcli Kith, 
1810. Virginia Cora, Ijorn January 25th, 1848, died at Savannah, Mo. 
April 14th, 1897, buried in Daily Ciraveyar(l, Andrew county. Mo. 
Samuel Oscar, born Oct. 5th, 1850, died Aug. 2nd, 1902, and is buried 
in Daily Graveyard in Andrew county. Mo. Abel Franklin, born 
Oct. 18th, 1852. Wilson F.ee Gates, born Dec. 10th, 1854. 

From the time of his marriage to Julian Morgan, Samuel Gates 
Daily resided at a farm called Coony Hollow, six miles south of 
Green.sburg, Ind., on Sand Creek until 1849, when he removed to the 
former home of his father, Charles Daily, and on this farm, and sev- 
eral hundred acres purchased adjoining it, lived until March, 1858, 
when he witli his entire familj' except the oldest son, Ciiarles Mac- 
lin, who took two teams overland in the fall of 1857 and one daiig!;- 
ter, Martha Morgan, who %vas married and living in White county, 
Ind., removed to Andrew county, Missouri. The journey was made 
by rail to Cincinnati, Ohio, thence down the Ohio river by steam- 
boat and up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to St. Joseph, Mo., 
and thence by wagon 22 miles to near Fish Trap Ford on Platte river. 
Late in the fall of the same year he removed to a farm he purchased 
of Meek Dysart, five miles east of Savannah, where he resided until 
his death, March 2lst, 1866. 

Well does the writer remember his experience on this long jour- 
ney from his Indiana home to the new one in Missouri. His observ- 
ing disposition and boyish inquisitiveness wiiieh led him to stray 
from under the eye of iiis mother and elder sister at a critical mo- 
ment when the boat was being loosed from her moorings in Cincin- 
nati resulted in his being made a prisoner as it were by his parents 
for several days. 

Another experience that stands out clear in his memory iiappen- 
ed when one night he fell from tiie top berth ami landetl on his lath- 
er and mother who were sleeping peacefully at the time on the floor 
of the stateroom. Death only will efface this experience from the 
writer's m<Mnory. 

One of the pleasing memories of this trip as recalleil by the wri- 
ter was the singing by his sister, Virginia Cora. Though but a small 
child then she had a magnificent voice anil her chililisli tones held 



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the company spellbound. Many were the dimes and quarters she 
reaped for entertaining the passengers with her sweet singing. "The 
Carrier Dove" was one particular song she sang with such perfect 
finish and deep childish emotion that even to this day the writer 
recalls it with pleasure. 

Julian Morgan Daily, wife of Samuel Gates Daily, was born near 
Howard's Mill, Montgomery county, Kentucky, April 18th, 1815. 
She was the daughter of Abel Morgan and Sarah Howard Morgan. 
Abel Morgan was the son of Ralph Morgan and he the son of David 
Morgan. (See the Morgan ancestry as traced by the writer.) 

Julian Morgan Daily died Feb. 5th, 1893 and is buried in Daily's 
Graveyard, Andrew county, Missouri. 

William Allen Daily (1846- ) was married to Mariah Eliza- 
beth Craig, daughter of Elder Wesley Perry and Abbey Piercy 
Craig, Nov. 8th, 1865, by Elder William R. Trapp at the Craig home- 
stead about 1)4 miles north of where is now Avenue City, Andrew 
county, Missouri. By this marriage seven children were born: 

Julia Evaline, born April 27th, 1867, died Sept. 3rd, 1868, buried 
at Long Branch Graveyard, Andrew county, Missouri. Sidney 
Franklin, born Nov. 20th, 1868. Oliver William, born Oct. 12th, 1870. 
Jesse Morgan, born Oct. 14th, 1872. Thomas Alvin, born Sept. 9th, 
1876. Infant boy born July 6th, 1878, died July 17th, 1878, buried be- 
side his mother in family lot in cemetery at Mt. Hope, Kansas. 
Carrie Mariah, born March 28th, 1880. 

Mariah Elizabeth, mother of above children, was born August 
31st, 1845 at Craig Homestead as above given. Died April 27th, 1884 
at Mount Hope, Kansas, and is buried on family lot in cemetery at 
that place. 

William A. Daily served in the Union Army during War of Re- 
bellion in three diflfei'ent commands and was honorably discharged 
from Capt. John B. Major's Company B. 43rd Missouri Vol. Infantry 
at close of the war at Benton Barracks, Mo., June 30th, 1865. Wil- 
liam "A. Daily, after his marriage in 1865, to present time, March 
1909, has moved 27 times, and for a few years at first could carry all 
his worldly possessions in one wagon load. Resided in Andrew 
county. Mo. until 1870 when he located a soldiers' homestead of 160 
acres in Sedgwick county, Kansas, that now immediately joins Mt. 
Hope, Kansas. This land is now one of the best improved farms in 
that county. In 1890 he sold this farm and moved into Mount Hope, 
Kansas, where he had been for years engaged in Banking business, 
in connection with various other interests. On April 7th, 1886, he 
was married to Martha Howard in Mount Hope, Kansas, by the 
Rev. Lvman Hull. 



Martha Howard Daily was born Feb. 21st, 18(52. She was the 
dauf^litcr of Jesse Howard and Mary Kwin<? Howard. The mother, 
Mary Ewinj?, being a daughter of liydia Morgan Ewing and Patrick 
Ewing, said Ijydia Morgan being a daughter of Abel and Sarah 
Howard Morgan, of Howard's Mill, Montgomery county, Kentucky. 

In October 1892, William A. Daily sold the Farmers and Drovers 
Bank at Mt. Hope, Kansas, which he founded and had been for some 
years the sole proprietor and in Feb. 1893 removed to Vernon, Jen- 
nings county, Ind., where he resided until December 1898, when he 
moved to Indianapolis, Ind., first locating at 1624 East Tenth Street 
until 1905, when he removed to present home at 1502 p]ast Tenth St. 

The data for this pamphlet was obtained from various sources, 
among which were "Builders of Our Nation" compiled from Amer- 
ican Cyclopedia, data from War Department at Washington, D. C. 
and Adjutant (teneral's Ofticc at Hartford, Conn., furnished by S. 
M. Saylor, Huntington, Ind., and data furnished to him by Sidney L. 
Daily, and from early histories of Athens county, Ohio. Some data 
embodied not fully verified is so stated, but is probably very nearly 
correct. Other data was obtained from Sarah Gates Daily and some 
from the oldest Dailys now living. Parties to whom this is furnish- 
ed can easily start in where this is left off and write the annals of 
each one's particular family. 



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